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It's because everyone is sharing the same link instead of sharing their own. The link on this HN page is the original sharer's URL
by chrisrhoden 14y ago
It's because everyone is sharing the same link instead of sharing their own. The link on this HN page is the original sharer's URL
- mmaunder 14y agoExactly, and it's a real bummer because true virality would have looked much more interesting.
- eevilspock 14y agoHow is HN being a sharing node not "true virality"? I think you don't quite understand "viral".
- sirclueless 14y agoThe point was to see the web of virality, but if everyone uses the same url instead of generating one via the "Share" link on the page itself that falls apart. If you copy-paste the url from HN to facebook, for example, then the HN sharer seems to have originated all of the Facebook inbounds.